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The ANC announces it will suspend constitutional negotiations until the government meets its demands for an end to violence.

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An historic four hour meeting is held between the Council of Mining Unions, representing White miners; the NUM; Mr Adriaan Vlok

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SA signs agreement with Namibia concerning the appointment of representatives and privileges and immunities for representatives

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Indemnity Act No 35 commences.

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Zambia’s security chief Alex Shapi says in Lusaka that the ANC has begun disarming guerrillas in that country after five people

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Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historic books on African people and their customs, dies instantly after b

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Saboteurs blow up two railway lines south of Johannesburg.

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It is disclosed that John Vorster has invited the Presidents of the Ivory Coast and Liberia to visit South Africa.

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The maritime section of the Castle military museum, the Maritime museum, illustrating all facets of fleet activities in South A

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Following the results obtained in the general election held in April, a new cabinet is sworn in.

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UN agrees to Egyptian demand to withdraw UN forces from Gaza Strip.

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Harm Oost (87), journalist, author, politician and champion for Afrikaans dies in Garsfontein, Pretoria.

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The members of a nineteen-strong French patrol have been discovered hacked to death in the mountains between Algiers and Consta

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Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 commences, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act to rem

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During Muslim-Nationalist riots for independence in Nigeria; at least thirty-two people are killed.

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The UN, previously without a permanent home, begins to move into headquarters in New York City.

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WWII: East Africa. The 5th Indian Division, part of General William Platt’s Northern Force, takes Amba Alagi after eighteen day

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The SA general election is won by the United Party with 111 seats, followed by the ‘Herenigde Nasionale Party’ (Re-united Nat

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Following a successful coup against his brother Abd al-Aziz IV, the new Moroccan Sultan Abd al-Hafid requests aid from France a

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The infamous Moroccan bandit, Raizuli, kidnaps an American citizen, Ion H Perdicaris.

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The British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner, proposes that educated and prosperous non-Whites should be a

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Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer negotiators, Generals Botha, De Wet, De la Rey, Smuts and Hertzog attend peace talks in Pretoria with Lo

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Total eclipse of the sun observed in Mauritius.

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Jan van Riebeeck’s statue, presented by Cecil John Rhodes, is unveiled in Cape Town.

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An International peace conference is convened at The Hague in the Netherlands. It adopts conventions on warfare and creates the

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Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van

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Joachim A. van Plettenberg is sworn in as governor of the Cape after Ryk Tulbach passed away.

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The Sultan of Egypt and his son Ashraf take Acre, the last Christian stronghold in the Holy Land.

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Jacob Zuma’s eulogy to Roy Padayachie by Jacob Zuma